| #8943, aired 2023-10-04 | EARTH SCIENCE $800: Seismographers use the difference in speed between P waves & S waves to help locate this point the epicenter (of an earthquake) |
| #8043, aired 2019-07-24 | "P" IS FOR SCIENCE $400: When an egg cell in a flower fertilizes itself, it's called "self-" this pollinating |
| #8043, aired 2019-07-24 | "P" IS FOR SCIENCE $1200: Among species, there are brood, social & sexual types of this relationship in which someone is usually a loser a parasitic relationship |
| #8043, aired 2019-07-24 | "P" IS FOR SCIENCE $2000: It's the astronomic term for the point in the Moon's orbit when it's nearest the Earth perigee |
| #7768, aired 2018-05-23 | MIND YOUR "P"s & "Q"s $2000: You can learn about quarks & gluons in Chad Orzel's "How to Teach" this science specialty "To Your Dog" quantum physics |
| #7425, aired 2016-12-16 | TRUST THE SCIENCE $2000: Make this kind of "grab" & tell us it's the P in P=fv, f symbolizing force & v, speed power |
| #7361, aired 2016-09-19 | SCIENCE CLASS $2000: (Kelly of the Clue Crew demonstrates with Sarah standing far in the background.) Abbreviated F.P., this optical illusion makes for some very odd visual-size relationships forced perspective |
| #5492, aired 2008-06-24 | "P" IN SCIENCE $400: This order of mammals is divided into prosimians & anthropoids primates |
| #5492, aired 2008-06-24 | "P" IN SCIENCE $800: Today, most commercial varieties of this antibiotic are produced by the mold P. chrysogenum penicillin |
| #5492, aired 2008-06-24 | "P" IN SCIENCE $1200: This stage of complete metamorphosis occurs immediately after the larval stage pupa |
| #5492, aired 2008-06-24 | "P" IN SCIENCE $1600: The antielectron predicted by Paul Dirac in 1928 was found by Carl Anderson in 1932 & named this a positron |
| #5492, aired 2008-06-24 | "P" IN SCIENCE $4,600 (Daily Double): (Sarah of the Clue Crew inserts a needle into a balloon.) The balloon doesn't break because it's made up of this type of substance, from the Greek for "many parts"; the needle merely separates the large molecules a polymer |
| #5351, aired 2007-12-10 | CIRCUS SCIENCE $2000: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew watches some trapeze artists rehearse at Circus Center in San Francisco, CA.) At the start of the trick, the trapeze artist has maximized her P.E., this; at the moment of the catch, she wants to maximize it again so she's not moving potential energy |
| #4988, aired 2006-04-26 | SCIENCE CLASS $1600: A litmus test can help you set things on this scale devised by S.P.L. Sorensen a pH scale |
| #4567, aired 2004-06-15 | MIND YOUR SCIENCE "P"s & "Q"s $800: You may have noticed that this planet isn't on the same ecliptic plane as the others in the solar system Pluto |
| #4567, aired 2004-06-15 | MIND YOUR SCIENCE "P"s & "Q"s $2000: Sadly, James Joyce died before these hypothetical particles were named for a word he used in "Finnegans Wake" a quark |
| #4533, aired 2004-04-28 | EARTH SCIENCE $100 (Daily Double): Seismographers use the difference in speed between P waves & S waves to locate this point the epicenter |
| #4363, aired 2003-07-16 | "P"SCIENCE & MEDICINE $1,600 (Daily Double): In the 2nd century B.C., this Egyptian astronomer thought that stars were fixed points of light in a rotating sphere Ptolemy |
| #2922, aired 1997-04-22 | SCIENCE $300: In the 1920s, Julius Nieuwland polymerized acetylene, added chlorine atoms & created this synthetic rubber Neoprene |
| #1467, aired 1991-01-08 | "P"SCIENCE $300: The term for food poisoning is outdated since these compounds usually don't cause it ptomaine poisoning |
| #1043, aired 1989-03-01 | "P.S." $400: Bentley's "The Process of Government" is a classic text in this college subject political science |
| #776, aired 1988-01-11 | PHYSICAL SCIENCE $400: Abbreviated "P", this element comes in red, white, & black forms phosphorus |
| #678, aired 1987-07-15 | COLLEGES $500: In the early '80s at Triton College, some classes in this technical subject ran from 11 p.m. until 4 a.m. computer science |
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